san_rock_art_gadavid_low.wmv

This impressionistic video shows some of the rock art of South Africa at a place called Wildebeest Kuil in Northern Cape Province. My friend and colleague Rob Milne introduced me to this site during my visit to South Africa in September of 2009. The San (Bushmen) and the Khoikhoi (formerly called the Hottentots) made these petroglyphs (rock engravings) as much as 10,000 years ago on the andesite boulders strewn across a low hill (koppie) that is south of the Kalahari Desert near the city of Kimberley. For more on South African rock art, read a chapter in my book The Kivas of Heaven. Go to: www.theorionzone.com .

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• South Africa
• rock art
• rock engravings
• petroglyphs
• prehistoric culture
• San Khoisan
• Khoikoi
• Bushmen
• trance dance
• therianthrope
• archaeology
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• shamanism